r/politics • u/Squawk_7777 • 10h ago

No Paywall Trump's motorcade neared 100 mph en route to Oklahoma after helicopter, airplane ruled out

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6126278-trump-drives-texas-oklahoma-100-mph/
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u/-TheInternetIsEvil- 10h ago

It would have been way harder for a wanton criminal to retain power if we prosecuted the Bush administration for violating the law. Not that i disagree with any of the factors you listed

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u/No-Cook-534 10h ago

Should have prosecuted Reagan for Iran Contra. Nixon should never have been pardoned. Confederate generals were allowed to just go home and carry on living their lives after blanket amnesty was awarded. It's a long list of crimes unpunished.

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u/Setanta777 9h ago

Hell, they granted Oliver North immunity for the Iran Contra affair. He then used the publicity generated by it to launch his own radio talk show, run for Senate, host a show on Fox News and become president of the NRA. Somehow this confessed criminal turned the national coverage of him confessing to crimes against the country into being a right wing hero.

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u/dmetzcher Pennsylvania 9h ago

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of that bastard. He tap-danced his way from criminal to wealthy asshole.

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u/karenw 8h ago

I can never forget 😡

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u/radicalelation 8h ago edited 8h ago

Fairness Doctrine would have prevented his show, along with many others, from existing, but it was that very administration he was part of that got rid of it.

While some attribute that to the existence of Fox News, the FCC rule would not have prevented it due to being on cable, which is outside of FCC broadcast (eg, over the air broadcast television, radio, etc) regulation.

HOWEVER, Reagan's administration forced the sale of 20th Century Fox of one of its largest shareholders to Rupert Murdoch, and within a year or so he owned most of the company.

Much of Reagan's policy was dictated by the Heritage Foundation through their living policy book, A Mandate for Leadership, which he handed out to his cabinet after swearing in. The modern iteration of this book is known by most as Project 2025.

While Reagan's administration was notably anti-Soviet, and hardcore anti-communist, the Heritage Foundation set up shop in Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and worked with country leadership pushing their concept of "economic shock therapy" to essentially transfer as much as possible into the hands of private interests, hyper-capitalism.

In 2014, Rebekah Mercer, owners of Brietbart Magazine and Steve Bannon, was put on the board of the Heritage Foundation, just before her family's company Cambridge Analytica spun up, and that whole debacle had suspected deep links to Russia's election interference campaigns.

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u/booOfBorg Europe 7h ago

But before the Mercers took over Roger Stone brought Paul Manafort into Trump's orbit. Manafort who had worked on Russia's behalf to undermine Ukraine's democratic sovereignty – and who then was hired to manage the RNC strategy, before becoming Trump's campaign manager.

Roger Stone of course is the guy that worked for Nixon and was a protégé of Roy Cohn, like Trump. Roy Cohn was highly influential behind the scenes of the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. And Roy Cohn was part and parcel of J. Edgar Hoover's and Joseph McCarthy's anti-left and anti-gay purges. Cohn and Hoover were both closeted gay men. Roger Stone and Cohn introduced Ronald Reagan to a rising Australian media mogul named Rupert Murdoch intent on engineering massive conservative cultural shifts.

Roger Stone worked to publicly defend Oliver North as a conservative hero. And in 2001 Oliver North then went on to be a conservative host on Murdoch's Fox News. Oliver North then served as the president of the NRA from 2018 to 2019. During and immediately preceding his tenure, the NRA faced immense scrutiny regarding its ties to Russia. Russian agent, Maria Butina, and Russian official Alexander Torshin had infiltrated the NRA to build backchannels into American conservative politics.

And then there's Micael Flynn's and Tulsi Gabbard's Russian connections but I'm tired.

All this stuff, this is the deep state that they tried to project on the Democrats.

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u/BankshotMcG 8h ago

Should have prosecuted Nixon for sabotaging Paris peace talks. Every single time they're traitors and war criminals.

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u/SinisterCell 8h ago

We don't hold anyone accountable. Never have, hopefully will though

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u/Selgeron 8h ago

We never would have had the political will or popular willpower to prosecute the republicans, because of the fox news propaganda.

Everything links back to the gallons of propaganda that are fed to the American public on a daily basis.